The Slovenian transition represents a slow but steady liberalization of constraints on competition. Using a unique … as surviving firms, prove to be the major source of TFP gains. Market competition from new entrants, foreign-owned firms …, and international trade also raise firm efficiency in the industry. Results strongly confirm that market competition …

globalization through the impact of increased competition and foreign direct investment on domestic firms' efforts to raise their … into account firm heterogeneity. We find support for the prediction that competition has a negative effect on innovation … are important channels for domestic firm innovation. We do not find support for the inverted U effect of competition on …

Gary Becker's theory of discrimination argues that increasing competition will reduce discrimination in the labor … increase in foreign competition due to unilateral trade liberalization disproportionately drove discriminating plants out of …

We study the attitudes of junior and senior employees towards strategic uncertainty and competition, by means of a …-strategic uncertainty and for beliefs on others' competitiveness and ability. Social image matters, as evidenced by the fact that seniors …

men without the element of direct competition, which allows for the identification of psychological effects of competition …

as competition intensifies between workers, the incentive for workers to cooperate with each other diminishes. We report … different amounts of competition on-the-job and that these differences explain differences in cooperation in our experiment … staff who face little competition on the job. Further, after accounting for the possibility of personality-based selection …

Choice and competition in education have found growing support from both policy makers and academics in the recent past … for choice and competition is clear, in existing work there is rarely an attempt to distinguish between the two concepts … academic outcomes than those whose choice is more limited; and whether Primary schools facing more competition perform better …

This paper evaluates general achievement effects of choice and competition between private and public schools at the …